Huston Smith by Huston Smith Essays in World Religion

A challenging and provocative collection of essays on comparative philosophy, religion and culture from one of the foremost thinkers of our time, this volume gathers Huston Smith's most insightful and important reflections on the state of the human spiritual life. With a range and depth seldom seen in contemporary religious studies, Smith examines the contributions of religion and philosophy to the worldÆs great civilizations, both past and present. He explores the traditions of East Asia, South Asia, and the West, discusses the importance of comparative studies in a religiously pluralistic world in energetic prose that can be appreciated by both the layman and the student.

Huston Smith is internationally known and revered as the premier teacher of world religions. He is the focus of a five-part PBS television series with Bill Moyers and has taught at Washington University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Syracuse University, and the University of California at Berkeley. The recipient of twelve honorary degrees, Smith's fifteen books include his bestselling "The World's Religions", "Why Religion Matters", and his autobiography, "Tales of Wonder".
Professor of Religion and Culture at Renison College, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

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It is symptomatic of the unlevel playing field on which science and religion contend today that a scientist with no theological credentials (Freeman Dyson, in The New York Review, May 28) feels comfortable in concluding that the theology of a fellow scientist (John Polkinghorne) is, like all theo...

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But, instead of hurrahing the many efforts afoot to reconcile religion and science, the author sarcastically suggests the creation of an Equal Opportunity Center for Science and Religion to serve as a watchdog on scientism and to discuss those subjects where scientific and religious understanding...

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